Irongate NetSurvibox 266

The NetSurvibox 266 is a router/firewall/VPN made by the now defunct company Irongate S.L.
The board has one mini-PCI slot, CF slot attached to the PCI bus through a HighPoint HPT371 IDE controller, two RJ-45 ports (one is NPE-B and the other is a RTL8100 network controller), two USB ports (one USB 2.0 host attached at a VIA VT6212 and one USB 1.1 client attached at the SoC) an a serial port.

OEM installation using the TFTP method

Upgrading OpenWrt

If you have already installed OpenWrt and like to reflash for e.g. upgrading to a new OpenWrt version you can upgrade using the mtd command line tool. It is important that you put the firmware image into the ramdisk (/tmp) before you start flashing.

JTAG

Hardware mods

as a beginner, you really should inform yourself about soldering in general and then obtain some practical experience!

Notes

The board boots with the files: openwrt-ap1000-zImage and openwrt-ixp4xx-generic-squashfs.img, but due to the lack of patches for it, is not stable.
The kernel image must be recorded in mtd3 labelled kernel and squashfs or jffs2 image in mtd4 labelled image.